The Miracle Worker Character Analysis

The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tan's first novel. It consists of four sections with sixteen short stories. One of the main issues of the novel is the relationship between Chinese mothers and their Chinese – American daughters. ‘‘Your mother is in your bones.’’ (Tan 1998, 30) There is a cultural chasm between them because of the difference in the way they were brought up and different influences of the environment.

The most prominent communication topic represented by the movie was conflict. Throughout the course of the film, there were various conflicts that took place between the main characters, Anne Sullivan and Helen, and between the supporting characters, Kate, Captain Keller, and James. The conflicts mainly occur between Anne and Helen and between Kate and Captain Keller. Most of the time, the conflicts are because of Helen’s inability to communicate and their overall frustration trying to communicate with her. Conflicts can arise because of many different factors but these conflicts arise because of Helen’s disabilities. In class, we discussed the different factors that can create a conflict in a family (such as money, death, etc.), and illness was one of the first topics on the list. Helen’s illnesses (or disabilities) basically tore her family apart. The illness

In the movie, ‘Silver linings Playbook’ Pat Solitano is diagnosed with clinical bipolar disorder 1 and struggles with stress-induced manic outbursts. This is revealed by a manic episode where Solitano is seen to almost beat to death a co-worker, who he caught cheating on with is wife. The repercussion of Solitano’s actions results in termination of his job, estrangement from his wife who takes out a restraining order and sees Solitano institutionalized for eight months in a psychiatric hospital.

In Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the nurse Miss Ratched is a fine example of a realistic fictional villain. Possession of three key components is essential in identifying what makes Miss Ratched a villian. Motive is what drives the villain to commit the very acts that allow them to be considered evil in the first place, and often drive their entire being as a character. While they must possess motive, they must also have a sense of morals that coincides with their motives (typically evil, or distorted) and follow their moral compass in a way that often causes trouble for those around them. Additionally, a villain is frequently associated with their opposite; the hero who combats them. Kesey’s character perfectly aligns with these three categories of what makes a villain, and it is unquestionable that she is the villain of the novel.

¨The Joy Luck Club¨ by Amy Tan was an interesting novel. The book consisted of about eight characters, meaning eight different perspectives. Each of which, had a whole chapter or two dedicated to a short story in there life. They tell each other these life stories at a gathering they have every once in awhile to play mah jong. Throughout each story, or chapter, the mothers try to connect more with their daughters, and the daughters try to connect more with their mothers. It makes you wonder how well daughters know their mothers.

Both men, McMurphy and Luke were turned into examples, much like Jesus Christ and left behind a legacy. Luke at the prison was cool without a doubt, motivating all the prisoners to follow his lead which attracted attention of the authority who believed that Luke had to be dealt with since he was getting out of line and also taking the other prisoners with him 'Thats my darling luke, grins like a baby bites like a gator' we see here in this qoute that dragline was one of many whose heart Luke won, dragline calls him 'darling' which shows how much luke is loved by his fellow prisoners and what a huge impact he has had on their personality. When McMurphy started popping the bubbles of the 'rabbits', making them realize that they had been ripped

In the historical fiction novel Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson it is about how twelve-year-old Lafayette and his two brothers Ty’ree and Charlie have to cope with both of their parents death and make do with nothing but each other. Both of the brothers, Ty’ree and Lafayette play a significant role in their parents death. Tyree, the eldest Bailey brother was a witness to his father's death he was incapable of saving him. Lafayette, the youngest brother was in a similar situation with his mother, that if he had reacted differently he could have saved her. These experiences are similar and different from those of their brother Charlie, who was not there for either of their parents death. All of the brothers feelings can be greatly affected

In both the movie and the play at the very beginning, the doctor declares that Helen will live. Later after the doctor had left Kate, Helen’s mother finds out that Helen is blind and deaf. Then it shows a passage of time to when Helen is older, a little while before Captain Keller,

This is the heartbreaking tale of a 17-year-old girl named Olivia. Her teenage mother (Lillian) committed suicide just three days after she was born by walking into the Mississippi River in the middle of the night. Olivia's grandmother, who she lives with, suffers with dementia and thinks that Olivia is actually Lillian. Many of the townspeople draw similar comparisons between daughter and mother and it feels like they're just waiting to see if Olivia will suffer the same fate as her mom when she turns 18.

In the beginning of The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero has established Tommy Wiseau as a creepy and weird person. Sestero communicates his feelings on Wiseau predominantly through the tone in his descriptions. According to chapter, “This guy had a rather piratical face and presence, with a sour expression and long, messy black hair” (23). Sestero’s description leave a negative impression of Wiseau. In a few cases, he would reference other people’s feelings to reinforce his claims on Wiseau’s character. For instance, Sestero states, “He figured Tommy was probably some spoiled wild child from an oil-rich Bulgarian family who’d been paid by his parents to vacate the motherland and never come back” (27). Sestero’s recitation of Sandy Schklair’s confession supports his

John Hughes's The Breakfast Club is one of film history’s most iconic and renowned movies and is a cornerstone of 1980’s pop-culture. The Breakfast Club showcases five unique high school students who all unfortunately find themselves imprisoned in an all-day Saturday detention. The students go as following: Claire (a pretty girl), Brian (the nerd), John (the bad boy), Andrew (an athlete), and Allison (the strange, goth girl). These students come from very different backgrounds and social settings which proves to spark many conflicts between them as well as with their supervisor Mr. Vernon. But through this conflict they find similarities between themselves, and after spending nine hours locked up together, they find resolution within themselves and with their new friends. Psychology can explain why this happened as well as what caused other events to occur. This paper will examine four different psychological phenomena: stereotypes, conformity/normative social influence, ingroup versus outgroup/superordinate goals, and the various causes of attraction.

In the short yet complex work “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, readers see a woman who goes through a complete spectrum of emotions in the short span of an hour. When the main character learns that her husband is dead, like most, she is shocked and utterly filled with grief. As the story continues, a dramatic change takes place within the mind of the main character, Louise. Upon the conclusion of her natural, wifely grief, she realizes that she is finally out from under the grasp of her husband and is now a free woman in a time when men dominated life at home and the goings on of society. Through his death, Louise finds the opportunity to be born again. Many of the emotions that the main character goes through are depicted through the imagery of her constantly changing environment, and the author specifically uses the architecture of her home as a main tool. In the story, the use of visual imagery projects the rise and fall of the main character as her life transitions quickly back and forth. Through an analysis of her characterization, these changes ultimately prove too much for her to handle. In Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” a character analysis can be performed based on the changes in her environment compared to the changes in her life situation. The layout of the world around Louise is used to show her initial grief, sudden realization of freedom, and her gateway to a new life free from oppression of men.

William Gibson's play, The Miracle Worker, illustrates how people who triumph over hardships can succeed in achieving their goals. The play follows Annie Sullivan, a half-blind northern young woman, as she travels to Post-Civil War Tuscumbia, Alabama in order to teach Helen Keller, a blind and deaf little girl. When she arrives in Alabama, Annie meets Helen's family members; her father, Captain Keller, is a stubborn, commanding former Civil War captain and her mother, Kate Keller, is a young, overly protective woman, both of them have kept Helen almost as a pet because they did not know what to do with her or how to treat her. In order for Annie to succeed in teaching Helen, she has to battle with Captain Keller's stubbornness, Kate's

THE absolutely tremendous and unforgettable display of physically powerful acting that Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke put on in William Gibson's stage play "The Miracle Worker" is repeated by them in the film made from it by the same producer, Fred Coe, and the same director, Arthur Penn. The picture opened at the Astor and the Trans-Lux Fifty-second Street yesterday.

The characters of Anne and Helen both offer different elements to this story. In the story and movie, Helen is portrayed as lost in her younger years. She does not know right from wrong; all she knows is happiness and anger. The movie shows a scene that involves Helen walking around taking food off of her family members plates. The family does nothing to stop Helen. They allow her to take whatever she wants so that they can continue in conversation. This is appalling to Helen’s teacher, Anne Sullivan. When Helen tries to take something off of her plate she reacts and cannot believe the family allows this. This scene displays how Helen’s life has been thus far. It shows that because of her condition, her family never made her mind any manners. This led to Helen knowing no difference between right and